The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South.

The US Supreme Court handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Fletcher v. Lamonewhich upheld Maryland's "No Representation Without Population Act." The law was enacted in 2010 to ensure that incarcerated persons would be counted as residents of their home addresses when the state drew new legislative districts. Large populations of incarcerated persons had previously been counted in the districts in which they were imprisoned (prison-based gerrymandering). Passage of the bill (passed as HB 496 and SB 400) in 2010, and its affirmation in the nation's highest court on Tuesday, was heralded as a major civil rights victory.